Re: When to give doctors the samples?

Over the full moon! I did the tests both randomly and at the full moon and was positive at the full moon. People are getting things confused. If you want to test positive you want the parasites to show up. Taking pumpkin seeds will lesson the parasite load and prove negative in results. I had been eating lots of pumpkin seeds when I tested negative. Amoeba like parasites do something called "intermittant shedding" so are hard to detect which is why you take samples over several days. Obviously taking anything pharmaceutical will have the same effect - reduce numbers of worms/ parasites and you wont see them in a stool sample.

Do the sample pots have fixative/preservative in them? This is vital in detecting parasites. Most good labs give instructions to do the samples over three days with three pots then send to the lab ASAP. I have not heard of 8 days. This might be ok though so dont take my word for it. Read
http://www.badbug.org
for lots of info about testing for parasites. Even if you don't want to go down the drug route which badbugs advocates there is lots of helpful information there about dealing with testing parasites.